1. DTC AOP 2010 - GSI October 1, 2009

2. FY09 Funding Resource/Tasks AFWA (February 2009 - January 2010): – 3.3.1 GSI code management and support (1.1FTE) Deliverable: » Code management plan » Community (and AFWA) support » Maryland collaboration (in-house DTC staff) – 3.3.2 Testing and evaluation of GSI DA system in AFWA regional applications (1.4FTE) Deliverable: Baseline testing » NODA vs WRF-ARW plus GSI » Cycling schemes: full vs limited cycling NOAA (October 2008 - September 2009): – General GSI community support (0.5FTE) Deliverable: GSI release in September 2009

3. Task Team Members (October 2008 – September 2009) 0.06 0.25 0.08/0.02 0.5 0.02 0.13 0.57/0.01

4. FY09 Accomplishments Collaborations and coordination with NCEP/EMC, NOAA/GSD, AFWA and NCAR. Built Boulder Community Repository – Community access – Subversion code management – Carry latest EMC GSI code capability plus community contributed features – Increased GSI portability – Compilation/configuration tools – Integrated Regression Test Suite GSI community support and management – Boulder Community Code Management Plan (under review) – Gave GSI instructional session (June 2009 WRF Workshop) and lecture (July 2009 WRFDA Tutorial) – GSI helpdesk: gsi_help@ucar.edu – GSI website: http://www.dtcenter.org/com-GSI/users/index.php – Users’ Guide (v1.0) – GSI 2010 Tutorial planning (ongoing) GSI community release – GSI Beta release (June 2009) – GSI community code release v1.0 (Sep 2009) AFWA GSI Testbed – Set up an end-to-end WRF-ARW and GSI suite – Baseline monthly runs (ongoing)

5. Code Release Release Branch Release is done on this tag Code release Release Branch Boulder GSI Code Repository July Sep AugDec NovFeb Mar Commits from EMC EMC operational implementation (global) Apr EMC Trunk Boulder trunk branch Commits from Boulder developers branch r12: Merged global operational version Q1FY09 r14: Beta release r18: Merged with the current EMC GSI trunk r… : Weekly sync with EMC GSI repository

6. GSI v1.0 was released on September 25, 2009: GSI code (based on NOAA/NCEP Q1FY09) Compilation/configuration tool GSI required libraries Updated GSI User’s Guide Tested on IBM Supercomputer, Linux workstation, Linux Clusters Community Release

7. FY10 Plan Continue collaborations and coordination with NCEP/EMC, NOAA/GSD, AFWA and NCAR. – Maryland staff – EMC visit Boulder Maintain Boulder Community Repository – Update, port and enhance Regression Test Suite – Improve the portability of the code – Carry out weekly regression tests – Sync with EMC GSI repository (EMC->Boulder) – Plan for Boulder->EMC syncing – Develop community tools: PrepBUFR converter GSI community support and management – GSI Community code release v2.0: April, 2010 (Tentative) – GSI Tutorial in June 28 – 30, 2010 in Boulder, CO – Form a Boulder GSI committee, which provides guidance to the GSI support, testing and evaluation – Maintain and update the Boulder Community GSI Code Management Plan – Setup administrative (?) structure for GSI management – Coordinate T&E activities – Update GSI User’s Guide v2.0 – Provide support to the community including GSI-help, GSI webpage, online documentation and online tutorial – Present Boulder GSI work at national and international conferences

8. FY10 Plan GSI T & E DTC will  Set up the FY2010 AFWA GSI Testbed, based on the recommendation from the DTC FY2009 GSI T&E report;  Carry out a baseline experiment without GSI (NODA run) using the latest WPS and ARW, available in Spring 2010, as a reference for evaluating GSI experiments;  Test and evaluate the latest GSI, available in Spring 2010, using the testbed;  Conduct impact studies to assess impact from certain data types;  Check and test QC procedures;  Deliver a report to AFWA summarizing the test results and recommendations.  Further develop the end-to-end scripts;  Develop utilities to read and display outputs from GSI, WRF and MET

9. FY10 Plan Milestones (Deliverable): – GSI Community code release v2.0: April, 2010 (Tentative) – GSI Tutorial in June 28 – 30, 2010 in Boulder, CO – Updated GSI User’s Guide – GSI committees – T&E activities report

10. FY10 Plan Budget (AFWA+NOAA) Salary: Huang0.1 FTE AFWA+ 0.15 FTE NOAA Shao 1.0 FTE AFWA Crosby 1.0 FTE AFWA Park 0.4 FTE AFWA Hu0.50 FTE NOAA Stark0.50 FTE NOAA Carson?? Total2.5 FTE AFWA1.15+?? FTE NOAA Travels: – 4 x DC-Denver – 2 x Omaha – 2 x AMS conference

11. FY10 Plan Extra tasks (1.0-1.5 FTE) Development community tools (samples) to read GSI and display outputs (e.g., GSI’s binary outputs). DTC GSI Testbed – Expand the AFWA GSI Testbed:  Compute a new (ARW) BE from NODA, carry out singe ob experiments and perform initial BE tuning, in collaboration with MMM colleagues;  Test and evaluate the ARW BE (and its tuning) using the testbed, in collaboration with MMM colleagues;  Develop utilities to read and display outputs from GSI, WRF and MET;  provide documentation of the utilities to AFWA.  Set up a GSD GSI Testbed:  test GSI capability/configuration for RR also using WRF-ARW  initial capability – impact for cloud analysis using GOES and METAR observations  extendable to observation impact for other platforms by DTC community